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The stone façade of Sheffield station, added in 1905. The Park Hill flats are in the background. The station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway to the designs of the company architect John Holloway Sanders. [3] It was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield city centre.
Bridgehouses railway station was the terminal station of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway from its opening in 1845 until the opening of the Wicker Arches, a 660-yard (600 m) long viaduct across the Don Valley, which supported the new Sheffield Victoria opened on 15 September 1851.
This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was a railway line in England, between the named places. The North Midland Railway was being promoted but its route was planned to go through Rotherham and by-pass Sheffield, so the S&RR was built as a connecting line. It opened in 1838. In Sheffield it opened a terminal station at Wicker, and in Rotherham at ...
The first main line railway station in Sheffield was opened in 1845 at Bridgehouses by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. [29] This line was extended to a new station, Sheffield Victoria in 1851, and Wicker station was replaced by Sheffield Midland in 1870.
Between 20 and 22 January 1973, the station was briefly reopened whilst Sheffield (Midland) station was completely closed for commissioning of the new power signalling box. The final use of the station by regular fare-paying passengers was unscheduled, and occurred on 17 June 1981, when points failure caused a Huddersfield to Sheffield Midland ...
The cost of the bridge was eventually covered by Sheffield Corporation and the station duly opened in 1888. [1] The station consisted of two flanking platforms joined by a footbridge which also served to carry a footpath over the railway. The platforms were both served by small buildings in the pre-double pavilion style used by the MS&LR.
Sheffield station is a railway station and tram stop in Sheffield, England. Sheffield station may also refer to: Bridgehouses railway station (1845–1965), Burngreave, Sheffield; Sheffield Victoria railway station (1851–1970), Wicker, Sheffield; Sheffield Wicker railway station or Wicker Goods railway station (1838–1965), Wicker, South ...